facial

1. 1.

   of or concerning the face

   “a facial massage”

   “facial hair”

   “facial expression”
2. 2.

   of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object

Other forms of facial

plural

facials·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about facial

What does facial mean?

facial means "cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in facial?

facial has 2 syllables: fa-cial. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪʃəl/.

What is another word for facial?

Close synonyms include facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is facial a common word?

facial is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.